December 7, 2012

Also just confirmed: Tennessee's football team will have a 1:30 p.m. meeting today to meet Coach Butch Jones.
— Wes Rucker (@wesrucker247) December 7, 2012

And just that fast, Tennessee goes and dashes all of our hopes and dreams for a public and protracted job search that ends with Houston Nutt hires Cincinnati head coach Butch Jones. Jones has a 50-27 record with three years each at Central Michigan and Cincinnati. He was Western Michigan's head coach when the Dawgs faced them in Sanford in the game that Knowshon did a triple lindy over a guy and moonwalked on his hands into the end-zone*.

Since he has a buzz cut, I am no longer jealous of the Tennessee coach's hair. The upside for Tennessee is that it is doubtful he'll bring his hair stylist/mistress/soon to be Bruce Pearl's next wife with him from Cincinnati I expect he'll have a healthy respect for Skyline Chili and a bad Western Michigan accent, which should make for some hilarity during the first Big Orange meeting when the boosters find out his last name is Jones, not Davis.

I can't wait for the first time he asks for a whiskey and gets pissed it isn't Canadian Club.